Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-11-29
SOME STRANGE NNTIpATHIes.
hSaarkable Instances by Way Of nius-
tration-A Dog at . Feast.

tratioa-A Dog at . Feast.
II seems absolutely incredible that Peter
The Great, the father Of the Russian navy,
should shudder at the sight of water.
whether running or still, yet 50 it was,
especially when alone. His palace gar
dens, beautiful as they were, he never
entered. because the river Mosera flowed
through them. His coachman had or.
Aeu to avoid all roads which led past
screams, and il compelled to pass brook
o. bridge the great emperor would sit
with closed windows in a cold perspira.
ION. Another monarch, James l, the
English Solomon. as he liked to be called.
had many antipathies, chiefly tobacco,
ting and pork. He never overcame his
inability to look with composure ut a
drawn sword, and it is said that on one
occasion, when giving the accolade, the
ting turned his face aside, nearly wound.
ing the new made knight.
Henry III, of France, had so great a
aislike to cats that he tainted at the sight
sf one. We suppose that in this case
The cat had to waive its proverbial pre-
eogative and could not look at king.
This will seem as absurd as extraordinary
10 lady lovers of that much petted ami
nal; but what are We to say of the
Countess of Lamballe, Of unhappy his
tory, to whom a violet was G thing Of
horror? Even this is not without its
precedent, for it is on record that Vim
cent, the painter, was seized with vertigo
and swooned at the smell Of roses. Scali-
ger states that one Of his relations was
made i'll at the sight Of lily, and he
himself would turn pale at the sight Of
water crosses and could never drink milk.
Charles Kingsley, naturalist as he was 10
the core, had q great horror of spiders,
md in "Glaucus," after saying that
svery one seems to have his antipathic
animal, continues: II know one (him-
self bred from his childhood to zoology
by land and sea, and bold in asserting
end honest in feeling that all without ex-
,eption is beautiful, who yet cannot,
after handling and petting and examin-
ing, all day long, every uncouth and
venomous beast, avoid a paroxysm Of
horror at the sight Of the common house
spider" The writer shares in this dis
like to painful extent; in this case it is
inherited from his grandfather. The
genial author Of the Turkish Spy" says
that he would far prefer, sword in hand,
b face lion in his desert lair than have
0 spider crawl over him in the dark.
The cat, as we have previously men,
toned. has repeatedly been an object Of
aversion. The Duke of Shomberg,
'bough redoubtable soldier, would not
it in the same room with q cat. A
courier Of the Emperor Ferdinand carried
this dislike 30 far as to bleed at the nose
m hearing a cat new. A well known
olicer Of her majesty's army, who has
proved his strength and courage in more
than one campaign, turns pale at the
ight Of q cat. On one occasion, when
asked out to dinner, his host, who was
rather skeptical as to the reality of this
feeling, concealed a cat in an ottoman in
ne dining room. Dinner was announced
snd commenced, but his guest was evil
IDENTIFY i'll at ease, and at length declared
his inability to 60 on eating, as he was
sure there was a cat in the room. An
apparently thorough but unavailing
search was made, but his visitor was 30
completely upset that the host, with
many apologies for his experiment, .'let
the cat out of the bag" and out Of the
-Sttoman at the same time. Lord Lander
dale, on the other hand, declared that the
Oewing of cat was to him sweeter than
sny music, while he had the greatest dis
Ike to the lutte and the bagpipe. In this
latter aversion he was by no means sing
alar.
Dogs, too, have come in for their share
cf dislike. De Musset cordially detested
them. When a candidate for the acad-
emy he called upon prominent member.
At the gate OF the chateau 3 dirty, ugly
dog received him most affechonately and
insisted on preceding him into the draw.
ing room, De Musset cursing his friend 8
predilection for the brute. The academi-
iAn entered and they adjourned to the
dining room, the dog at their heels.
: seizing his opportunity the dog placed
his muddy paws upon the spotless cloth
and carried of bonne bouche. THE
sretch wants shooting!' was De Musset' 9
nuttered thought, but he politely said:
"You are fond Of dogs, sees''
"Fond of dogs?" retorted the academic
eian; "I hate them"'
"But this animal here" queried DE-
Musset; IL have only tolerated it because
thought it was yours, SIR"
"bline'' exclaimed the poet, "tbt
thought that it was yours alone kept m,
from killing him!' Cassell's Famil,
Magazine.